Tokens

on the tokens pane you can create and manage nats proxy, rest api keys, and api access accounts nats proxy note the nats proxy feature is available for manufacturing connect edge version 3 3 1 and later nats proxy allows you to set up a data connection with multiple manufacturing connect edge instances it also allows a data connection with a manufacturing connect edge instance and another developer application nats proxy use cases consider the following use cases for using nats proxy set up a connection with two manufacturing connect edge instances data in one instance will be sent through a nats connector, which allows the data to be received and visualized in the other instance set up a connection with three or more manufacturing connect edge instances data in one instance will be sent through a nats connector, which allows the data to be received and visualized in multiple other instances set up a connection with one manufacturing connect edge instance and an external developer application data in the instance will be sent through a nats connector, and the developer application is properly set up as a nats client to subscribe to nats data and receive it learn how to set up edge cascading with the nats connector docid\ rkd0bfd0gya90nukydj9x rest api keys this section allows users to create, edit, remove and validate api keys an api token is a unique identifier of an application requesting access to a service it is utilized when you use rest api endpoints for sending requests and retrieving data you need an authorization token to make requests from api endpoints see your administrator for access to full api the rest api keys section allows you to add, modify, validate and remove a key you can copy the api token from the value column for a key to make requests and updates using a rest api endpoint, you need to use curl from the command line or a gui based software like postman see test rest api using postman or curl docid 9xgkq5ifrwma5zistsakw access accounts this section allows users to create new accounts, enable or disable accounts and modify topics, view the api key, reset the account and remove the account access tokens ui to access the tokens pane log in to manufacturing connect edge from the navigation panel, navigate to system > tokens the nats proxy pane appears next steps create an api token docid\ vfyols3usyp1pyop64crk manage api tokens docid\ s7gagmbsqqlssni2yuage create an api account docid\ tgtkwxcl67ya6f65bot2r manage api accounts docid\ hpndyaz0xvcoxqvk9lpfk test rest api using postman or curl docid 9xgkq5ifrwma5zistsakw set up edge cascading with the nats connector docid\ rkd0bfd0gya90nukydj9x